View From Atlantis
By DJ Tyrer
Beneath night-dark sea
Stars swim through long-lost ruins
Eternal breath held
Memories trapped in stasis
Ice-cold currents flowing by
Submerged
Atlantis, free
to become endlessly
for Mankind anything: song… quest…
hope… dream
By David Edwards
Submerge
By Andrew Darlington
I hear the soft murmur of waves
in the trees, damply aquatic,
fish dart in drizzles of rain
across fields of shimmering tide,
England, our new Atlantis
is sinking beneath the sea
lost and neglected, eroding away
in the gentle silt of forgetting
no future, frightened of today
submerging in dull nullity
retreating through leagues of regret,
I pause, squelching through wetland
and listen to history draining away
in the soft murmuring of tide,
riverbanks ebb into lakes,
high streets into a swans glide
of disturbed dreams where
steeples collapse in the flood
swallowed by undercurrents,
this is the dream I once had,
those not drowned are drowning,
we dissolve into mist
and float away…
God of Sea
By Clive Donovan
It was as if the God of sea himself rose up
Streaming from his shoulders, weed and attendant fish;
Commanding, with stiff trident, waves and foam and tide.
We always knew he was down in there somewhere deep,
Receiving shoals, directing whales and dolphins,
Dealing with plastic chemical gifts from land.
But now he’d had enough and in his wrath divine,
Roaring with the force of a tsunami, he wept:
Great salt tears plopped wetly on the seaside towns
And the people died, scrabbling, in scum of sea.
Atlantis, The Submergence.
Was it inch by inch
like the remnant of a dream,
or sudden in occurrence
as lightning flash seen
laterally at distance?
By David Edwards
The Drowning
By Aeronwy Dafies
In the dreams of Edgar Cayce
Atlantis emerging, wreathed in wisdom
But, in reality, it seems
As if everywhere slowly is submerging
Drowning in water, plastic, hate
A topsy–turvy world of nightmares
With dreams left undreamed
Flood
By Clive Donovan
The river flows down the street now.
It bubbles up through tarmac,
Slips over shop steps, celebrating,
Barges into doorways,
Creates dark, slopping pools in cellars.
Rats discover new platforms.
Chewing turds they mutter among themselves
Tasting disorder, this perilous turnaround:
The mangled glass, the shifting of wood
And look in the supermarkets! Look up! See!
See the flimsy roof
Where the pigeons roost.
Eyeing up the sodden porridge below.
And what is this mania for scattering?
Everything is so dispersed!
Cars, bottles, office chairs, clothes hangers;
As if litter doesn’t matter any more,
Is no longer a crime.
The rats shake their heads, hop over sand bags,
Make fine novel fortresses
In places once forbidden.
View From Atlantis 